Adrienne

seems a bit on the expensive side but I haven't purchased new for years. Greg (tanks2u), not sure what his name is on this but someone will pm you for sure if you want to know makes them, a very good price and a very nice tank.

Have you had discus before? I use daltons propagating sand as the base of my planted discus tank and it seems to work well. Too fine a sand will clog the filters as the tank needs to be kept clean with regular water changes and vacuuming stirs up any loose matter on the base of the tank. Heres a pic to give you some idea of what it looks like. The colours of the fish will stand out more depending on what colour plants you put in and the lighting on the tank.

Too much natural light will cause the water to turn green - it doesn't have to be direct sunlight. to help get rid of it put some filter wool in the intake of the filter, this will turn green fairly quickly. Cover the tank with something dark for 3 days and stop feeding and it should clear up. A UV sterilizer will get rid of it but unless you keep the sterilizer running it will come back unless you stop the cause/

thats where the $800 came from. the last one I saw was sold for $700 (in fact its the only one I have seen for sale). One of the shops up here told me 135% mark up on the list prices was what they sold at and that was about 4 weeks ago. We will all have to wait and see what comes in. It might be like the giant betta - males only - anyway.

You don't just need the money and a decent breeding pair, you also need the skills and knowledge to successfully breed these and a lot of the other plecs and hypans around.

put him in with the females in the community tank, he will be fine.

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you will need to run an airline into the tank if you have the temp at 30 degrees, higher temp, less oxygen and the fish will have to come to the surface to breath,

mines also red with a minute bit of blue in the rays of the tail - hff mt roskill and they have 3 more in stock, 2 blue and another red.

Well at $800 its not bad given how much some of the hm fighters have been going for this year! Trouble is that if someone does have a pair they aren't likely to say on this forum unless they live in Fort Knox.

is it a male, what colour, pic! my ones sulking as its contained atm. I need to set another tank up for it.

I've just picked up a nice red boy but no girls have apparently come into the country!

My bottles only hold just under 1.5 litres each so not much space either although if the fish is a big mature male I go to the bigger sized container so its much the same concept as the aqua one although I have a lot better water circulation and filtering in the big tank. In the wild betta don't have much water to swim in. The difference in the wild is that they don't share the same water in the way that these do and having a lot of fish in the same water can increase the risk of disease etc. I think thats why some people prefer to keep them in individual containers. You have better control over disease although it comes at the cost of increased time maintaining the water quality. For me, what I have suits as I work fulltime and have three children who I still have to taxi around to a certain extent. BTW its nice to see enough people on here in this section so that we can have a discussion about fighters and keeping them Its been a long time with only 2-3 of us really interested in fighters :bounce:

That is the two million dollar question!!!!

That is the million dollar question!!!!!!!!

here you are I can get 50 bottles in at a pinch and depending on how many bottles depends on how many filters I run to keep the water circulating. Holes down the sides of the bottles and in the bottom. To clean lift the bottle up and down a couple of times and the muck drops out and goes up the filters.

i was trying to work that one out too!

Oooooh dat ones a seeeecreeettttttt!!!!! Will let you know in a couple of weeks if they are any good. otherwise the eel will be a happy eel :lol:

not going to give up but have to slow down until we come back from holiday - have about 300 fry atm.

Oh Dear : some of those faces only a mother could love :lol:

MY frustrations :roll:

I'm thinking short fin male - is it aggressive? Can you post a pic. I know females can build nests but they are usually hermaphrodite.

yep - the stupid thing said that there was another post and did I still want to post - so I submitted and ended up with it twice. duh :oops:

Definitely a bubble nest. If you leave it it may cover the entire surface in a few days. If you destroy it he's just build another.

Definitely a bubble nest. If you leave it it may cover the entire surface in a few days. If you destroy it he's just build another.